thank you for the material, my work always fails with the lack of sources. need patterns or ideas, pictures or examples but most time I dont find what I search for, especially out of this time. my current sources were the greatly made patterns of Metal Gear Solid 3.

i think it's just a shame that a custom skin doesnt appear to everybody. It would be nice if a user specific skin couuld be set up. But maybe thats something the developers might do once the game goes live.

The problem is that each skin is a couple of MB, for 30 players all on one game that ends up being nearly 60MB downloaded just for one match, you might get occasional overlap, but that's not so common.

The problem is that each skin is a couple of MB, for 30 players all on one game that ends up being nearly 60MB downloaded just for one match, you might get occasional overlap, but that's not so common.

Good skins have the same size as the normal skin so that doesn't count for your argument.
Although if people want to choose from different skins for their tank that would increase the game size.

Thanks for your replies Now I have a little time on my hands at last, I will be looking to make a small 'decal/text' tutorial to whack on to the end of the OP - just to give a hand with adding Divisional symbols, tank names, font sites and so on, so stay tuned. And I'd just like to reiterate an earlier post of mine;

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If anyone does have anything they wish to add to the F.A.Q, or any 'skinning' tips or any useful tricks in Photoshop or GIMP, please, please, please do post in the thread and I'll update them into the OP with credit.

As the skins are all held on your computer, the skins you have in your WoT skin directories are only visible to yourself. There is currently no way for others to see the skins you are using (unless they've downloaded the same skin and are using it, but then you would not know that)

Just a FYI, the PS plugin for DDS files converter also works for Paint Shop Pro (I'm using PSP8.) It goes in the PSP's plugin folder and works pretty good, except when saves kinda lags a bit lol. Course still new to photo editing software so not too enthusiastic to get into bigger programs like Photoshop or GIMP yet (even though I have heard that GIMP is pretty simple to use =/.)

Quick and dirty way is to just open up the SM file and adjust curves/levels or the very rough way by adjusting overall brightness/contrast. If you're not happy with just certain parts you can dodge or burn those areas or paint in the value you want yourself.

For all people who are searching for historical schemes look here.
There are paintings and markings posted by Bison and they give a lot of information about what paintings and markings are used on different tanks.
Just check it out.

For all people who are searching for historical schemes look here.
There are paintings and markings posted by Bison and they give a lot of information about what paintings and markings are used on different tanks.
Just check it out.